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From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: floppy drives / old cubes
Message-ID: <1991Feb06.034803.5577@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 03:48:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.153658.24248@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Feb5.153658.24248@athena.mit.edu> jnicolas@athena.mit.edu (Julien J Nicolas) writes:
>am curious to find out what old cube owners are doing: buying an
>external floppy disk drive (e.g. the PLI drive at $500), installing an
>internal drive (which would require getting a new face plate -NeXT seems
>unwilling to provide them), using the E-net to download the software
[etc...]

If NeXT would sell the damn faceplate from the new NeXTs (selling
the new drive bay chassis wouldn't be bad either...), I would buy
an internal floppy.  Unfortunately, this ain't so, thus I'm--as
well as other older cube owners--SOL and can't go through this
route.  So, I will, reluctantly, buy an external floppy
drive...yuck, how unpleasing.

Ken

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